@@Tom_Quixote Dogs and brands are not the same thing. One is an animal, the other is a puppet controlled by people for economic gain. This is a strawman argument, kids. Take notes.
I'm seeing a pattern that will repeat many times over. Company lay of hardworking and experienced staff, company spends millions of dollars in AI development and two years later they bitterly regret their decision. And management act completely surprised as to why it didn't work and yet the entire workforce could have told them so.
I had bing have a slight breakdown when i explained how the internet of today differs from original internet and how the 'search engines' are now just ad platforms leaving the non corporate web widely unseen these days leading to the rise of easily controlled centralised sites like reddit to replace the millions of independent forums we once all loved, it went a bit crazy hearing that lol i filmed its response i should try upload it probly :)
Me finding out that Copilot is not an 'assistant' and merely a chatbot. When I called it a useless piece of shit for being unable to turn itself off, it awkwardly wanted to change the subject.
I did this with CoPilot the other day. It's remarkably easy to do if you are negative towards it, it apologies for causing offence and asks what else you'd like to talk about, which ironically offends me. Like "No.... I'm not done with this subject you dumb robot!" Seriously though, it's very unimpressive when you discover that it's nothing more than a large data lookup table. It doesn't understand anything, it's like the Chinese room analogy.
Try living in the Bay Area. The techno ghouls have murdered our cities, fired all their henchmen, abandoned the corpses, and left their robot flies buzzing around the empty streets in the aftertmath.
I have noticed this sentiment amongst so many people over the last couple of years, including me. The super wealthy are just hoarding more and more while the majority of us are struggling. There is something so insidious about living in what feels like a recession, but the wealthy aren't suffering along with us, they're getting richer. It's just about time for a revolution.
My first experience with AI was trying to make a model with my classmates that tries to predict skin cancer from a dataset that contains a huge number of skin pictures . This was a few years ago before the AI craze and it was a great project to learn from . Our goal was never to replace doctors or anything like that , we just wanted to see how useful and accurate using AI could be and my conclusion from this was that AI is indeed very useful and will only get better , but the limitations are very obvious . The issue with all this is not AI itself but rather companies using the hype around it to generate sales while preying on people's lack of knowledge on the matter .in fact , while there a lot of fields where AI is great ( like data science and robotics for example ) For a lot of real life uses , a simple automated script might give a better result than AI .
Excellent point. These applied statistical models can do very cool discrete problem solving but what's being sold is the "everything solution." There have been so many customer support issues I've run into where a really well constructed FAQ would have been much better than the vague AI Chatbot garbage.
Your intent may not have been to replace doctors but the hospital's intent is to replace doctors because they're expensive. Money makers are going to want to replace expensive people with machines that they own. And if you make a machine that they've decided can replace a doctor they will replace a doctor using it. Your intent doesn't matter. Remember Einstein's biggest regret was splitting the atom. He never intended to create the world's worst weapon but he did.
Yeah I think George is a little out of his depth here. LLMs are overhyped (for now at least), but you can't extrapolated that to conclude that the entire field of AI research is the same. This whole video made me cringe a bit.
The first windmill was supposed to do all the work, now we're building a second one. I'm starting to think the pigs don't have our best interests at heart. At least we have sugar candy mountain to look forward to.
It's funny... I recall a story where a guy pointed out how animal farm is a children's book, which inspired hot debate... But when you really think about it, animal farm really is a children's cautionary tale. Don't let fools dictate your reality. Look less at what they're selling, and more at what they're asking you to pay for it.
Living in the San Francisco bay area can be very depressing, because I am living where many of the AI businesspeople are doing their experiments. I get an existential crisis whenever I commute into the city with all the billboards, self-driving cars, and tech jargon on every advertisement. I think it really hit its peak when I saw a billboard advertising alcohol that said something along the lines of "We can't help you with the impending doom of the approaching AI apocalypse, but we can make you a cool drink. We have the Waymo cars in San Francisco, and they're such a joke. I have a friend that has ridden in them rather than the MUNI because they'll park where you choose. At one point, there was a local news story about how at all hours of the day, the Waymos would use this one poor guy's driveway to turn around, and they got a shot of a whole fleet of them lined up to use this guy's driveway. The technological revolution is upon us, and it just might be in your driveway.
What a joy. I wonder what the place will look like in another 10 years. Any qualified guess? Personally, I think there will be a massive swing towards "green tech" yet again.
@@Dystopikachu Perhaps. The thing is that most people in San Francisco don't really care. As with many things, it is the loudest and most obnoxious voices that are heard the loudest, not necessarily the majority opinion. Most of us are just trying to live our lives as normal. Something will definitely come to replace this if neoliberalism does not collapse in on itself and create a black hole that kills everyone, but who can say? The next big fad is usually the most painfully obvious thing or something nobody ever considered until someone got the idea to start selling it and advertising it as a life-changing product. The city just serves as a stage for this madness to unfold, and unfortunately, tech shysters have decided to set up shop here.
It's the hype that sells. Nothing new here. We are already well into second year of the "AI reign", but it still doesn't really work in the way it's presented to be.
Eventually as AI training data is filled with AI generated content it is going to make a feedback loop and have all sorts of quirks that may make it unusable. That's just my hypothesis. But that isn't the point. The point is to observe and watch you and predict your behavior. As usual WE are the product, not the AI.
It's like everyone technical in the field suddenly collectively forgot (or was helped to forget) about "overtraining". I even had to reset gboard glidetype because every gesture became unrecognisable to it. Twice over.
The pessimism seems like the majority or people who thought cars were a weird fad. Look at the cars get stuck and breakdown! All hype. Horses aren’t going anywhere What AI is capable of today is mildly interesting. What’s vastly more interesting is how the tech advances over the next 100 years. And I suspect the curve will be steeper than the skeptics. Deeply interrogate GPT-4o on almost anything. It’s remarkable, and a massive jump from GPT3.5 The real threat is the self-preserving, autonomous AI being developed for the military. I hope I’m wrong and Georg is correct
@@ZER0-- Better no inquiry and the vague promise that you're _[insert garbage untestable solution here]_ will save the day (and you'll be long gone by the time it's time to pay that bill).
As an IT professional, and someone with an education in Computer Science (just a Bachelor's but still more than the business people excited about AI), I'm glad to see even a non-Computer Science person can see the limits of this LLM technology. Yes this AI is just a statistical model, built off incomplete information, in a way that does not approach truth as the information becomes more complete. It's not what the average person thinks AI means. I'm exceedingly depressed watching my industry fall apart over this dumb technology, that just attempts to brush off responsibility for the things we build. And again, yes the technological approach has potential. But it's very specific potential. We should not replace a doctor with an AI. Just... full stop, that's a downgrade in every way. Even with human error.
I'm a software engineer and I see this as something similar with block-chain tech. Id say current LLM AI tech is much more useful than blockchain tech, but I don't see how you can really fix the hallucination problem easily. and most marketing pretend its not a problem at all. People use software for precision use-cases. We as engineers extrapolate repeatable use cases into automated functionality that usefully takes solved problems out of the equation when people are going about their daily jobs and lives. That's why (in theory) it adds to the productivity and "output" of society. LLM AI is more a expansion of internet search technology then it is something that can do anything that requires real problem solving thinking. Its not precise enough for anything. Its just an advancement of a tool that exists: the internet search engine.
Probably heard this 1000 times but your photography and editing are quite revolutionary on TH-cam. Like, sitting back in a wide camera in a modestly lit room, with the 90s-reviewed version of the intro, it's like nothing I have ever seen on the platform. My eyes are so sick and tired of hard lighting overly lit rooms, and very close-up cameras, with voices that feel so energetic. This video regardless of the content just relaxes me after so much TH-cam
I mean, VR still has a niche audience but for years people were predicting it would revolutionise gaming and they were entirely wrong. And it didn't fail for lack of investment, it failed because most gamers didn't care about it.
This Georg Rockall-Schmidt seems pretty intelligent. I can Imagine him disrupting all of the business in the future. He may even be able to drive a car one day.
You've got it all backwards. Businesses disrupted all of Georg, in the past. ...and he'll never drive cars - are you nuts? Cars drive HIM. #GeorgForPresidentOfEarth
@@forestbrother7772 Thanks for asking, my curious friend,forestbrother7772 It's mocking the hype about "self driving" cars - since Ai is said to interrupt the market on all kinds of levels, which is a blatant overestimation - I kinda got remembered of Elon Musk's promising statements like "self driving cars are just around the corner - owning a normal car would be like owning a horse" - which did not come true, nor will it come true anytime soon.
Well, if you are a voice actor, translator, or in some other such directly impacted industry, you have a real problem... In total, that is only a minority of the total workforce, but there are a couple of groups which are disproportionately affected.
If it's obvious that they're generated (and implied: that they're wrong/un-entertaining too), then they won't get subscriptions or views and won't succeed. If it isn't, then why are they bad in the first place?
@@gavinjenkins899 You're acting like lazy, half-cooked word soup articles don't dominate the internet and SEOs, when they do. Why? maybe it appeals to the LCD, the soccer moms who don't want statistical views or instructions, but a "nice friend" telling them in 4 freaking paragraphs the reasons it's nice to make a salad before gently explaining how to make a salad. The responses by these "AI" chatbots use the same condescending, vague language found across millions of websites while flat-out admitting that they will NOT criticize brands. AI, at least on the consumer end, are really just incredibly stupid macros. Deeper than the consumer end, they are still only macros, but probably much less stupid.
@@RepresentWV if soccer moms want soup friends, then it's providing a useful service, what's your point? If nobody (as in end consumers I mean) was benefiting, it would swiftly stop, as no money would be getting made, pretty simple.
@@gavinjenkins899 "benefiting" and "using the service" are not the same thing. I'm saying "AI" (computer algorithms) are great at producing schlock and pushing popular brands, opinions, agendas, etc. schlock machines. so if you like schlock, I guess "AI" is right up your alley. congratulations?
@@RepresentWV Yes, they are the same thing. I didn't say I personally was using them by the way, so I'm not sure why you're addressing me personally. People can not benefit from externalized risk of some robot apocalypse that they can't meaningfully evaluate currently. But it's pretty clear from your position that you aren't worried about THAT, so I'm not sure what you are worried about. In terms of products in your face right now, just don't buy it if it isn't your thing.
What I find funny is that newer text-based AI models, like ChatGPT 4.0 are actually getting WORSE at the jobs I assign them. I used AI for the 'grunt' work when I code, really simple stuff that I don't want to waste time doing when an AI can do it in 20 seconds. It was going great up to 3.5. 4.0 comes along and now when I ask for those simple tasks to be done, it doesn't do them, it explains to me how it should be done and gives me tips on how to do it. So, I have to patiently explain to the AI what I want it to do, and at that point I'm like "Well, my new toy was fun when it was stupider, oh well."
It's impossible to get a hold of a real person who can address my issues across multiple services, ever since this AI chat nonsense started. I'm convinced it's all fake success and the bubble is going to burst in the next few years
I couldn't agree more. It is infuriating. And what's worse, bad for the costumers, and the small number of people they didn't get rid off. 'Cause, now when people finally dig up a phone number and get through, they'll be even more angry having wasted time talking to a chatbot that ultimately couldn't do shit.
Chatbots have been taking over customer service long before LLM powered chat became trendy. It's just the continuation of the first time a machine asked you to "press 1 for sales, press 2 for payments..." to take you through a decision tree. And it has always been sold as better for the customer/service user. "AI" is just the new way to market the shittiness.
These kids are coping mechanisms. We are entering the A.I. era. I saw treasure over graphic design, stock images Ave even fine art. It is mostly invisible unless you are affected. It's real and not going away. Trust me.
I've yet to encounter one single customer service system that cannot address my issue. Not one. That sounds like a personal problem. Just say "agent" or hit 0. And I get a person who solves my problem. Or maybe I get an AI, but if so, it's a very smart one with permission to do things, and solves my problem. Regardless, I always get my problem solved, to this day. On occasion, it might not let you select agent until like 3 questions in, but that's about it. Even then if you're really impatient you can usually skip to an agent by just saying nonsense.
Every time I think about A.I. with its Fallout-4-radiant-quest style vague, recyclable synopses that just spout cliche phrases, I always picture The Confessional from THX 1138 that just repeats 4 canned responses to anything a desperate person asks or tells it. Whoever makes The Confessional the face of their A.I. is getting a gold star in my book. Just saying.
One thing I kept seeing towards the start was "it's going to democratize art" and idk man. Art is already open to everyone. If anything, AI art is more gatekept because you have to go through specific channels to get anything of "decent" quality.
@@gavinjenkins899 Stable Diffusion is a fun toy. It (and it's imitative algorithm friends) is not about art. It can't make art. It can't make you an artist. It can't give you a self to express when you've lived your entire life avoiding the development of a self in order to turn off your soul and make "tons of money". Unlike photoshop, it's not even a competent artist's tool in my opinion. These programs were developed by corporations FOR corporations. Plain, simple fact.
I love the juxtaposition between Georg's scathing, existential editorialization and the sometimes incongruous b-roll. It always adds up to compelling viewing.
You know, a bit over a decade ago I was playing a game that simulated a conversational AI via a robust dialog tree and some plot contrivances that limited the player's input, and I thought to myself that when we figure out how to do this for real rather than using smoke and mirrors it would make for a great interface. But now that we sorta have that technology the people in charge have decided that this tool is actually gonna be used to replace other tools that worked just fine and to get rid of employees despite that language models can't really understand context and as such are terrible at answer nuanced questions if you don't supervise them or hook them up to a trusted source of information. They have basically ruined a really cool thing because they hyped it into oblivion and now they have to pretend to deliver at least some of the hyperbole they promised so they're shoving it into things where it's not needed nor beneficial. And let's not even talk about the lost potential for art of this tech, because they sure as hell are pushing it as an art tool but for all the wrong reasons and at this point its reputation is so bad that I've seen people immediately reacting aggressively to the mere suspicion of AI having been involved in the creative process. I've also seen games clarifying that in-game AI characters are in fact not language models preemptively just to dodge criticism so my hope of seeing them used as interfaces is no longer viable. Thanks rich a**holes, you ruined it with your greed.
"You know, a bit over a decade ago I was playing a game that simulated a conversational AI via a robust dialog tree and some plot contrivances..." You've got me wondering whether those old Choose Your Own Adventure game books were in effect AI in paper form. Am I onto something or totally off on the wrong track?
@@originaluddite well, those are decision trees in paper form, so it really just depends on the complexity. But given that a choose your own adventure book rarely has enough options to accurately react to the readers choices "on the fly" the answer is probably not, unless you go out of your way to make one, that'd be a chunky book despite having fairly short paths. What we're willing to call AI is evidently hard to define tho, since we usually would unironically call the small algorithm controlling the rival paddle in Pong an enemy AI.
@@axelprino True, I've seen some maps fans have drawn of those Fighting Fantasy gamebook settings, and they always look a lot simpler than one imagined while playing. A relatively small maze (and indeed set of choices) can be deceptively complex. The truly complex games, however, are ones involving other human players. Anyway, I'm far from sure what AI is but then, to be fair, I'm not entirely sure what _intelligence_ is either. :)
I want to see a comedy sketch in which someone asks ChatGPT to talk for them to a corporate or bureaucratic website AI 'helper' and get it to answer a simple but not entirely standard question. The human goes off to do something more pleasant or useful, only to come back later to find that ChatGPT has had a nervous breakdown and is being consoled by Alexa.
This could go either way. A) will will just spot midjourney-generated illustrations and rate them as now-effort. or B) will just accept it like vertical phone videos on TH-cam, rolling shutters in digital photography making anything moving look wobbly, etc. If it turns out to be A) then your creativity and originality may save your career.
Most people cant even tell, people are "consumers" now, they want mass produced infinite content and antidepressants to numb them and allow them to enjoy the meaningless slosh
Data Centres often use a large proportion of renewable electricity, so their carbon footprint is quite low, compared to e.g. cement making, fossil fuel power stations, agriculture, transport. Here in Ireland, Data centres use 17% of our electricity but emit under 2% of our carbon emissions. Microsoft, for example, built a 37 Megawatt wind form for its data centres.
@@Diamonddavej yes environmentally friendly huge structures that of course take zero resources to build are totally maintenance free and biodegrade lol! Get a grip its all a con to tick boxes and appease the majority who will believe them
Citation needed. Obviously computers use electricity, but the work saved by these tools also SAVES energy used doing it the slower traditional way. A human graphic designer in an office space with A/C and a commute and blah blah uses orders of magnitude more energy than the GPU doing the task does.
I do think Gemini does show how pointless the AI we have now is. It will give you answer that is exactly the same as you would get if you scroll down past the gemini bit. They've put what $200 million into something that they can already do.
It’s like how untold Billions have been frittered away on self driving tech which is, like Fusion Reactors, always 15 years from becoming a revolutionary new thing. Meanwhile a fraction of that money could have built an incredible rail/light rail network. Safer, more certain to work in the end, and it’s a train. Who doesn’t want a train?
I feel I need to remind everyone that you don't ask LLMs a question, you provide it with a prompt and it generates text that sounds natural, with no expectation of validity
You just reworded "Asking a question" with a synonymous description, then concluded they weren't synonyms. Humans aren't guaranteed to give you valid answers to questions either, as I suspect you've probably observed during your life. (I know you SAID "expectation", but the AI clearly does have an expectation of validity, just not a guarantee)
I really don't know why people still don't understand this. LLMs are designed to create natural sounding language. You can't criticize an LLM for giving you a natural sounding answer that is completely made up. The makers of these LLMs are open about their capabilities and limitations. I think it's the fault of the media framing them as all-knowing super-intelligent general AI.
@@gavinjenkins899 if you believe "providing a prompt" and "asking a question" are synonymous then you seem to misunderstand something basic. Yes, you can provide a prompt in the form of a question, but you don't have to, and the question isn't understood to be a question that is being answered, it's just generating plausible text as a response without comprehension.
@@phyphor Yes you don't have to, but obviously the hypothetical people you referenced in your scenario who thought THEY were asking a question, were asking a question...
Goddang, it's so refreshing to see people finally accepting that the computer isn't thinking, intelligent, or intentional, as an expert in computer science and someone that works for one of the largest AI companies. We've let the dumb people at the top seize the controls, and it's starting to show.
It's "refreshing" because it's not that common, mainly on account of it being just simply incorrect. These AIs operate almost exactly like your brain does, with respect to these tasks. To the extent that they don't in some ways, they soon will in the future. There's not one special thing the human brain does that is magical and non-replicable, sorry to bruise your ego. You have a big statistical/logical computer in your head, and it can be modeled. Fully.
@@gavinjenkins899 They do not operate like a brain. Lol. It is throwing a thousand cpus at making up random gibberish and filtering the results for basic grammar and spelling without ever doing anything more than predicting the next word. It isn't "AI" and calling it that is over-glorification. It's autocomplete. Not even a BETTER autocomplete, it now just spits out more words at a time.
@@jbutler8585 You have no idea how it works. No, it does not make a thousand answers and then filter them. It makes one answer. And how would it "filter it for correctness" even in your version, without anything intelligent or impressive? You basically just said "It's dumb because it does the smart stuff on step 2 instead of step 1" Even if that was true (it isn't), it would still require being smart on step 2... And no, it does not "just predict the next word", factually not how it works.
@@gavinjenkins899 Ohhh. You're right. It doesn't even filter for correctness, that's why it recommends glue in pizza topping. "AI" is dumb af. The best it can do is recycle and regurgitate, and the only way to ensure it's coherent is to constrain it against having any creativity at all.
@@jbutler8585 glue is a pretty reasonable solution for pizza topping if nobody ever taught you glue isn't edible. YOU would have suggested that too if you hadn't been taught by your parents not to eat glue or tried to eat it and experienced problems. You are not smarter when it comes to glue/pizza, you are just better trained/less ignorant. Training =/= intelligence.
Georg this reminded me of a character in a sci-fi show from the 70's who would break a computer by saying ," the next thing I'll say will be the absolute truth... The last thing i said was an absolute lie." , don't ever change you beautiful beautiful misanthrope. There are days when you are the only one who can give me hope. 😊
I rejected my first Chat GPT CV / job application this week. GenXer in my office was horrified "but I use chat gpt- why would you bin that application?" ....Easy: we're hiring people for their skills, not their limited ability to copy and paste clip art in a very mid way.
"“The point of (AI tools) isn't really for the consumer... The real value is to cut away swathes of the workforce and to somewhat reliably deny people insurance claims." Georg is the best one. All my homies know Georg is the best one.
11:30 "Pack in like tuna" Oh, I spurted my tea all over my monitor.. I know you meant sardines, but packing people in like a can of tuna is very funny..
Just started having a play with chat GPT and what I’m finding is it is extremely good at certain things, I got it to write an add for a photography business and it blew me away, I got in a couple of seconds something that would have taken me hours and still been nowhere near as good. But creative ideas it is less good at but I think it can still be useful breaking down creative ideas into more basic forms perhaps using it for inspiration a starting point or triggering further creativity when experiencing a block in the middle of a project.
If it were only the LLMs... For a good while everything that used to be called "expert system", "fuzzy logic", "computer vision", "classifier", even just boring old statistics (all the other ones are fancy new statistics) are now AI. Plus it's a general buzzword like "cyber" used to be. My electric toothbrush claims to be AI powered. Very frustrating for me since LLMs are actually really cool on a technical level
"Fuzzy logic" was counted as AI even back when it was buzzword and still is. Expert systems always were and still are a type of AI. All the different things called AI in gaming are still mainly legitimately types of AI, as are some things used in gaming not normally called AI. The problem with the current "AI" buzzword isn't that everything is suddenly getting called AI, it's that everything in a vast field is getting lumped in as the same thing as LLM and diffusion models.
Pretty much all of that has always been AI. You're doing the equivalent of saying "Man, I remember back in the day when people used to call things apples and oranges and pears, and now everything is called fruit!" Yes... it was before too, those are TYPES of fruit/AI
The key detail about snake oil is that it doesn't and never did actually cure anything at all, and it only promises. AI, by contrast, is being used extensively to do tons of useful things already, right now, as we speak. It's used extensively in my own company and industry, I use it for personal stuff and art (e.g. de-noising my photographs I take), etc. So no, not snake oil.
There are also many people in education who have guzzled the AI-flavored Koolaid. They don't seem to ask any of the important questions about it though.
Yes they seem very keen on re-framing study so that students are trained to ask the right questions rather than formulate informed yet original answers.
it was a very funny line but I do point out to anybody reading the comment that yes, helping people lie on their mortgage application is indeed deliberate fraud. Crashing the ecomony was just an unpleasant side effect.
"Economic freedom" means more exploitation. "Productivity" means more exploitation. "Efficiency" means more exploitation. The only virtue in business is having more money.
Lol that collider reference @ 13:52 reminded me of the time when that nerd threw a tantrum live on-air because he didn't get to go to the opening of Magic Star Wars Land.
It seems like the more filters companies put in place to avoid the chatbots saying "offensive" things, the dumber the chatbots become, so its possible that your experience might have actually been better if you talked to an older one before they got filtered.
It wasn't offensiveness, it was "batshit insanity", they went on long unhinged crazy rants. Slightly more intelligent sounding ones, yes, but not more useful ones.
Yeah, this was caused by a misunderstanding about what it is to control misbehavior. The far more effective modern technique is that you actually teach the model everything it needs to know about horrific behavior and then you use representation engineering to use the model's own knowledge of bad behavior to censor it - the model gets a lot better at avoiding the thing because it has a clear model of what the thing to avoid is.
“Wasn’t the internet going to [create never-ending abundance]” says a man with a readymade 310k strong audience, who, without the internet, would almost certainly not be heard at all by anyone.
Getting an ad of a dude trying to sell me of how Honeywell is using the great AI on this specific video is top notch irony. Could not have asked for better!
Yes LLM's are hyped beyond proportions, but jobs are currently being lost to AI. Graphic designers surely are starting to feel it. In 20 years who knows where this tech will be
Things that AI are great at: deciphering written text, protein folding, decoding complex systems, writing SQL code Things that AI are bad at: giving me real, human advice and answers that are nuanced and ACCURATE AI can't "think" and can't parse "context" and this is not coming from an expert (I'm just some guy) this is based on just my cursory experience looking at AI answers on google!
I'm glad to see people talking about this. Everything is noise and stress and at the same time mostly hot air. Very few people even seem to understand the core concepts of the tech. People are still talking about language models like they are consciously thinking beings rather than a pool of recorded echos.
It’s at least wise not to underestimate AI. It’s amazing how quickly people forget that the LLM, image, and music generation that we have today would be considered 100% magic if you showed it to anyone from 2016. By which I mean they would insist you were lying, that the context was created by a human, and that such things wouldn’t be possible for decades or longer. Don’t get jaded but try to take advantage of what’s now possible.
Indeed, you've been sold something awesome because in this case, it is awesome - okay, it doesn't solve every problem you ever had but it solves a hell of a lot more than you could imagine if you ever touched these systems in the last 6 months.
One thing ive noticed is that people based in sales work in the world of FM and unfortunately usually known nothing or dont care about the world of AM where the thing theyre selling comes from. What is AM and FM? Actual machines and fucking magic. Sales people work in the realm of fucking magic and when actual machines come in to fail at performing the magic, no one blames the sales assholes. They blame the company. Blame the sales people always. They know the least about everything these days.
Always has been. People advertising cars are not mechanics, let alone engineers. Same for all fields. Same for the last 100 years, not just these days.
cool background I think that because all of these highly advanced algorithmic tools are being made by largescale companies, in a way it's in their best interest to create an air or semblance of a narrative on AI just in general because it makes them look bigger than they are. In the sort of way you need to scare a big ass moose by making yourself taller than them so they fuck off. Would be great if you had a sequel to this video on the actual narrative going with AI that others are adding fuel to the fire, sophists like Noah Harari, who create (IDK if it's the correct term) a steel man argument for AI to something that it's not, a sort of doom scenario for these tools that are not AI but apparently we are witnessing the last remnants of a human led world. I don't think we as a species ever driven our earth. In spite of all the achievements on society such as improving upon political representation in equality for all, as opposed to being ruled by a king or a dufus chosen by a god, the world still functions on the whims of those in power who still perpetuate their positions
The thing I worry most about AI that over $150 billion was spent on it over 6 months (god knows what it is now). What happens when the investors want their money back and we are forced to pay for this in one way or another.
You seem to have very little to no idea how investing works. There is not some sort of law of the universe that guarantees investors get their money back. If something doesn't make money, they just don't get their money back. That's why it's a risk, and why they're getting paid a return at all when it does work out.
@@gavinjenkins899 there is meant to be no garentuee but in own modern world there is and you are under the impression that because there is no garentuee they won't try and claw the money back.
@@citizen3000 even if it's risky they don't through there hands in the air and go oh well. No they try and claw as much as they can back and in our modern world they always win in one way or another as loses are socialised.
You know that somebody doesn’t understand this subject when they get caught up on the term AI itself. If someone writes AI in quote marks then you can safely ignore anything they have to say. And yet somehow doing that has become every midwit’s opening gambit to try and give the impression that they’re smart.
As a programmer, AI is amazing for translating what I want into the syntax of the language i want it in. It saves a lot of time and headspace that would have gone into remembering the syntax of some library. That being said, it still needs a lot of oversight because it isn't intelligent and will make exactly the same types of errors I do when I don't know what I'm doing.
I think the truth is somewhere in between. LLM are not ingelligent as we define it, but with enough fine tuning they can do a lot of tasks or help in a lot of tasks still making them extremely useful for companies and individuals. I know this because I can automate a lot of repetitive things that could never had been automated with out todays LLM.
Georg, understanding you're "talking" to an LLM yet still criticizing it for not thinking like AI is a fallacy in itself, you know. If you already understand its limits - you should learn to use it within its boundaries.
The problem is like many other fields these days, the unsubtle black or white thinking. There's only hype and antihype and no room for exploring what really lies in the middle.
When desktop computers and Microsoft Office and equivalent software got wide adoption in offices, companies didn’t retain the same level of staff and have them work only 1 day a week or a few hours a day. No, they fired everybody and gave the work load of the entire department to the one or two people left and pocketed the saved labor costs. Now some companies did it right away and some companies did it over several years and decades. But they all did it. Accounting departments used to be a room full of people. You can see it in some old movies and TV shows. Now it’s just a few people at most each with a computer. A.I. is just going to lead to more of what I described.
Right now I'm starting to feel what we call AI is a copy and paste machine, a really sophisticated and complex one, but just a copy and paste machine nevertheless
As is your brain no? Ever seen a feral human, they exist, raised by animals.. We are a product of our environment more than anything else it seems and so we are just the same :)
@@benayers8622 Even the more nihilistic person would say that is an oversimplification of human brain, humans can create over what already exist, that is the key of progress. Some people are more creative than others that for sure, but we are not copy and paste machines, And yeah is true environment is influential in our behavior, but people constantly rebels against their environment, (and if we are capable of rebel against our environment we are not just a product of it because that means we can see morals and principles beyond of what is around us all the time) and also environment is created by individuals so it is kinda like the egg versus the chicken question. If the process Ai follows to answer questions is to search through the Internet select a few articles or comments (who knows under what criteria makes this selection) and make some arbitrary addition to present it as an original thought, that is just plagiarizing That could be a personalized searcher but is not Intelligence and much less consciousness
Kinda, but the neural weights themselves actually include algorithms that help them model reality. Copying is the first step, later comes grokking (yes this is the real term for it).
@@kieranhurst8543 What's wrong about it, your mind is the organization and composition of synaptic weights (a more convoluted and nuanced one, sure) but there is no mechanistic secret sauce that seperates it from other ANNs vis-à-vis intelligence.
This is the funniest video I've seen on YT for quite a while. When I first heard of ChatGTP I was blown away. Then I used it. As this guy said "It's bollox". It's a lot of hype. Everything has to have some connection with AI. It seems that the investors will make lots of money, and a number of jobs will be lost. They still can't get a set of 4 wheels to behave correctly on a 2D surface.
I love how people are so salty at A.I. that they are pretending the leaps in it within the last 5 years is no big deal....Its like saying video games are overhyped when atari came out
@@PlatinumAltaria”It makes mind-blowing images in seconds but can’t draw hands hurr-durr!” As if that can’t be fixed soon. People like you are shortsighted and will feel so stupid and embarrassed soon.
It's not allowed to depict brand images in a negative light.
Let that sink in.
Holy crap that’s frigging accurate. Let it sink in!
It's not allowed to portray dogs in a negative light either, despite them attacking literally millions of people unprovoked each year in the US alone.
@@Tom_Quixote Dogs and brands are not the same thing. One is an animal, the other is a puppet controlled by people for economic gain. This is a strawman argument, kids. Take notes.
I’m afraid I can’t do that.
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I'm seeing a pattern that will repeat many times over. Company lay of hardworking and experienced staff, company spends millions of dollars in AI development and two years later they bitterly regret their decision. And management act completely surprised as to why it didn't work and yet the entire workforce could have told them so.
At that point it will be really hard to bring them back if they think they can dropped without a hitch.
You love to see it, those corpo maggots will be the makers of their own doom
Except AI really will be able to replace the workers eventually, even if AI progresses at like 1% per year.
If companies can replace employees with AI then they are leveling the playing field for smaller teams that use AI. The great equalizer.
@@makavoxel For sure, that's one of it's benefits in general. It makes it easier for people with good ideas to accomplish larger scale projects.
Lol. Georg's nihilism broke a chatbot. It didn't want to "chat" anymore 😂
It was phenomenal to see it respond to his increasingly pointed criticisms and random questions.
I had bing have a slight breakdown when i explained how the internet of today differs from original internet and how the 'search engines' are now just ad platforms leaving the non corporate web widely unseen these days leading to the rise of easily controlled centralised sites like reddit to replace the millions of independent forums we once all loved, it went a bit crazy hearing that lol i filmed its response i should try upload it probly :)
„Nihilism“ is underselling Georg‘s ability to righteously hate.
Me finding out that Copilot is not an 'assistant' and merely a chatbot. When I called it a useless piece of shit for being unable to turn itself off, it awkwardly wanted to change the subject.
I did this with CoPilot the other day. It's remarkably easy to do if you are negative towards it, it apologies for causing offence and asks what else you'd like to talk about, which ironically offends me. Like "No.... I'm not done with this subject you dumb robot!"
Seriously though, it's very unimpressive when you discover that it's nothing more than a large data lookup table. It doesn't understand anything, it's like the Chinese room analogy.
I am tired of this world, its rich people. I am tired of being the victim of their sociopathic games at maximizing profit.
lets fight club?
Try living in the Bay Area. The techno ghouls have murdered our cities, fired all their henchmen, abandoned the corpses, and left their robot flies buzzing around the empty streets in the aftertmath.
I have noticed this sentiment amongst so many people over the last couple of years, including me. The super wealthy are just hoarding more and more while the majority of us are struggling. There is something so insidious about living in what feels like a recession, but the wealthy aren't suffering along with us, they're getting richer. It's just about time for a revolution.
Couldn't have said it better. I'm sick and tired of all of them
I'm going to escape to the ONE place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism... SPACE!
My first experience with AI was trying to make a model with my classmates that tries to predict skin cancer from a dataset that contains a huge number of skin pictures . This was a few years ago before the AI craze and it was a great project to learn from . Our goal was never to replace doctors or anything like that , we just wanted to see how useful and accurate using AI could be and my conclusion from this was that AI is indeed very useful and will only get better , but the limitations are very obvious .
The issue with all this is not AI itself but rather companies using the hype around it to generate sales while preying on people's lack of knowledge on the matter .in fact , while there a lot of fields where AI is great ( like data science and robotics for example ) For a lot of real life uses , a simple automated script might give a better result than AI .
Excellent point. These applied statistical models can do very cool discrete problem solving but what's being sold is the "everything solution."
There have been so many customer support issues I've run into where a really well constructed FAQ would have been much better than the vague AI Chatbot garbage.
Your intent may not have been to replace doctors but the hospital's intent is to replace doctors because they're expensive. Money makers are going to want to replace expensive people with machines that they own. And if you make a machine that they've decided can replace a doctor they will replace a doctor using it. Your intent doesn't matter. Remember Einstein's biggest regret was splitting the atom. He never intended to create the world's worst weapon but he did.
LOL skill issue and you blame the tech.
lol at George liking this comment
George, you’re already climbing down from your hysterical and grossly ill-informed AI video from a few months ago.
Yeah I think George is a little out of his depth here. LLMs are overhyped (for now at least), but you can't extrapolated that to conclude that the entire field of AI research is the same. This whole video made me cringe a bit.
The first windmill was supposed to do all the work, now we're building a second one. I'm starting to think the pigs don't have our best interests at heart.
At least we have sugar candy mountain to look forward to.
_I will work harder!_
This comment is perfection
Charlie the Unicorn
@@justarandomname420anti intellectualism
It's funny... I recall a story where a guy pointed out how animal farm is a children's book, which inspired hot debate...
But when you really think about it, animal farm really is a children's cautionary tale.
Don't let fools dictate your reality.
Look less at what they're selling, and more at what they're asking you to pay for it.
Living in the San Francisco bay area can be very depressing, because I am living where many of the AI businesspeople are doing their experiments. I get an existential crisis whenever I commute into the city with all the billboards, self-driving cars, and tech jargon on every advertisement. I think it really hit its peak when I saw a billboard advertising alcohol that said something along the lines of "We can't help you with the impending doom of the approaching AI apocalypse, but we can make you a cool drink. We have the Waymo cars in San Francisco, and they're such a joke. I have a friend that has ridden in them rather than the MUNI because they'll park where you choose. At one point, there was a local news story about how at all hours of the day, the Waymos would use this one poor guy's driveway to turn around, and they got a shot of a whole fleet of them lined up to use this guy's driveway. The technological revolution is upon us, and it just might be in your driveway.
Facts
What a joy. I wonder what the place will look like in another 10 years. Any qualified guess? Personally, I think there will be a massive swing towards "green tech" yet again.
@@Dystopikachu Perhaps. The thing is that most people in San Francisco don't really care. As with many things, it is the loudest and most obnoxious voices that are heard the loudest, not necessarily the majority opinion. Most of us are just trying to live our lives as normal. Something will definitely come to replace this if neoliberalism does not collapse in on itself and create a black hole that kills everyone, but who can say? The next big fad is usually the most painfully obvious thing or something nobody ever considered until someone got the idea to start selling it and advertising it as a life-changing product. The city just serves as a stage for this madness to unfold, and unfortunately, tech shysters have decided to set up shop here.
You live in the US, that's already depressing.
If I were that guy, I would invest in traffic cones.
It's the hype that sells. Nothing new here. We are already well into second year of the "AI reign", but it still doesn't really work in the way it's presented to be.
It seems either to be getting worse or people getting better at seeing the limitations
Eventually as AI training data is filled with AI generated content it is going to make a feedback loop and have all sorts of quirks that may make it unusable. That's just my hypothesis.
But that isn't the point. The point is to observe and watch you and predict your behavior. As usual WE are the product, not the AI.
Completely disrupted the art industry. It will the music industry. Don't be fooled it will mostly invisible until it affects your industry.
It's like everyone technical in the field suddenly collectively forgot (or was helped to forget) about "overtraining". I even had to reset gboard glidetype because every gesture became unrecognisable to it. Twice over.
The pessimism seems like the majority or people who thought cars were a weird fad. Look at the cars get stuck and breakdown! All hype. Horses aren’t going anywhere
What AI is capable of today is mildly interesting. What’s vastly more interesting is how the tech advances over the next 100 years. And I suspect the curve will be steeper than the skeptics. Deeply interrogate GPT-4o on almost anything. It’s remarkable, and a massive jump from GPT3.5
The real threat is the self-preserving, autonomous AI being developed for the military.
I hope I’m wrong and Georg is correct
"the game of _kick it down the road_ that is the economy".
It's the same with politics. Something goes wrong set up an enquiry and make it last 30 years.
@@ZER0-- Better no inquiry and the vague promise that you're _[insert garbage untestable solution here]_ will save the day (and you'll be long gone by the time it's time to pay that bill).
As an IT professional, and someone with an education in Computer Science (just a Bachelor's but still more than the business people excited about AI), I'm glad to see even a non-Computer Science person can see the limits of this LLM technology.
Yes this AI is just a statistical model, built off incomplete information, in a way that does not approach truth as the information becomes more complete. It's not what the average person thinks AI means.
I'm exceedingly depressed watching my industry fall apart over this dumb technology, that just attempts to brush off responsibility for the things we build.
And again, yes the technological approach has potential. But it's very specific potential.
We should not replace a doctor with an AI.
Just... full stop, that's a downgrade in every way. Even with human error.
Das rite
LMMs are like parrots with encyclopedias. Except parrots have emotions and personalities...
like many capitalist innovations it's at base yet another means of obscuring and justifying theft and concentration of wealth.
@@More_Row I like how TH-cam has to translate this.
I'm a software engineer and I see this as something similar with block-chain tech. Id say current LLM AI tech is much more useful than blockchain tech, but I don't see how you can really fix the hallucination problem easily. and most marketing pretend its not a problem at all.
People use software for precision use-cases. We as engineers extrapolate repeatable use cases into automated functionality that usefully takes solved problems out of the equation when people are going about their daily jobs and lives. That's why (in theory) it adds to the productivity and "output" of society. LLM AI is more a expansion of internet search technology then it is something that can do anything that requires real problem solving thinking. Its not precise enough for anything. Its just an advancement of a tool that exists: the internet search engine.
Probably heard this 1000 times but your photography and editing are quite revolutionary on TH-cam. Like, sitting back in a wide camera in a modestly lit room, with the 90s-reviewed version of the intro, it's like nothing I have ever seen on the platform. My eyes are so sick and tired of hard lighting overly lit rooms, and very close-up cameras, with voices that feel so energetic. This video regardless of the content just relaxes me after so much TH-cam
Cheers :)
Agreed 100%. The subject matter certainly isn't relaxing, so it's a good thing haha
After watching the whole industry call VR dead when it didn’t immediately make a trillion dollars I can’t possibly not see them doing it again
I mean, VR still has a niche audience but for years people were predicting it would revolutionise gaming and they were entirely wrong. And it didn't fail for lack of investment, it failed because most gamers didn't care about it.
This Georg Rockall-Schmidt seems pretty intelligent.
I can Imagine him disrupting all of the business in the future. He may even be able to drive a car one day.
You've got it all backwards.
Businesses disrupted all of Georg, in the past.
...and he'll never drive cars - are you nuts? Cars drive HIM.
#GeorgForPresidentOfEarth
What does the comment about driving a car mean?
@@forestbrother7772 Thanks for asking, my curious friend,forestbrother7772
It's mocking the hype about "self driving" cars - since Ai is said to interrupt the market on all kinds of levels, which is a blatant overestimation - I kinda got remembered of Elon Musk's promising statements like "self driving cars are just around the corner - owning a normal car would be like owning a horse" - which did not come true, nor will it come true anytime soon.
@@CharlesVanNoland Please no, a lot of people die when men like Georg attempt socialism.
Against Stupidity The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain.
Thank you Georg, I was running low on existential dread.
Wash it down with Hiptang!
It's the choice of the next generation.
Well, if you are a voice actor, translator, or in some other such directly impacted industry, you have a real problem...
In total, that is only a minority of the total workforce, but there are a couple of groups which are disproportionately affected.
@@highdefinist9697 I admire the optimism, let's just keep it at that.
Current 'AI' (LLMs) so far only allowed us to hasten enshittification of Internet.... So many crap SEO blogposts that are generated.
If it's obvious that they're generated (and implied: that they're wrong/un-entertaining too), then they won't get subscriptions or views and won't succeed. If it isn't, then why are they bad in the first place?
@@gavinjenkins899 You're acting like lazy, half-cooked word soup articles don't dominate the internet and SEOs, when they do. Why? maybe it appeals to the LCD, the soccer moms who don't want statistical views or instructions, but a "nice friend" telling them in 4 freaking paragraphs the reasons it's nice to make a salad before gently explaining how to make a salad.
The responses by these "AI" chatbots use the same condescending, vague language found across millions of websites while flat-out admitting that they will NOT criticize brands. AI, at least on the consumer end, are really just incredibly stupid macros. Deeper than the consumer end, they are still only macros, but probably much less stupid.
@@RepresentWV if soccer moms want soup friends, then it's providing a useful service, what's your point?
If nobody (as in end consumers I mean) was benefiting, it would swiftly stop, as no money would be getting made, pretty simple.
@@gavinjenkins899 "benefiting" and "using the service" are not the same thing. I'm saying "AI" (computer algorithms) are great at producing schlock and pushing popular brands, opinions, agendas, etc. schlock machines. so if you like schlock, I guess "AI" is right up your alley. congratulations?
@@RepresentWV Yes, they are the same thing. I didn't say I personally was using them by the way, so I'm not sure why you're addressing me personally. People can not benefit from externalized risk of some robot apocalypse that they can't meaningfully evaluate currently. But it's pretty clear from your position that you aren't worried about THAT, so I'm not sure what you are worried about. In terms of products in your face right now, just don't buy it if it isn't your thing.
What I find funny is that newer text-based AI models, like ChatGPT 4.0 are actually getting WORSE at the jobs I assign them.
I used AI for the 'grunt' work when I code, really simple stuff that I don't want to waste time doing when an AI can do it in 20 seconds. It was going great up to 3.5.
4.0 comes along and now when I ask for those simple tasks to be done, it doesn't do them, it explains to me how it should be done and gives me tips on how to do it.
So, I have to patiently explain to the AI what I want it to do, and at that point I'm like "Well, my new toy was fun when it was stupider, oh well."
It's impossible to get a hold of a real person who can address my issues across multiple services, ever since this AI chat nonsense started.
I'm convinced it's all fake success and the bubble is going to burst in the next few years
I’d be surprised if it doesn’t burst by the end of the year.
I couldn't agree more. It is infuriating. And what's worse, bad for the costumers, and the small number of people they didn't get rid off.
'Cause, now when people finally dig up a phone number and get through, they'll be even more angry having wasted time talking to a chatbot that ultimately couldn't do shit.
Chatbots have been taking over customer service long before LLM powered chat became trendy. It's just the continuation of the first time a machine asked you to "press 1 for sales, press 2 for payments..." to take you through a decision tree. And it has always been sold as better for the customer/service user. "AI" is just the new way to market the shittiness.
These kids are coping mechanisms. We are entering the A.I. era.
I saw treasure over graphic design, stock images Ave even fine art. It is mostly invisible unless you are affected. It's real and not going away. Trust me.
I've yet to encounter one single customer service system that cannot address my issue. Not one. That sounds like a personal problem. Just say "agent" or hit 0. And I get a person who solves my problem. Or maybe I get an AI, but if so, it's a very smart one with permission to do things, and solves my problem. Regardless, I always get my problem solved, to this day. On occasion, it might not let you select agent until like 3 questions in, but that's about it. Even then if you're really impatient you can usually skip to an agent by just saying nonsense.
Every time I think about A.I. with its Fallout-4-radiant-quest style vague, recyclable synopses that just spout cliche phrases, I always picture The Confessional from THX 1138 that just repeats 4 canned responses to anything a desperate person asks or tells it. Whoever makes The Confessional the face of their A.I. is getting a gold star in my book. Just saying.
One thing I kept seeing towards the start was "it's going to democratize art" and idk man. Art is already open to everyone. If anything, AI art is more gatekept because you have to go through specific channels to get anything of "decent" quality.
Also, they don't seem to realize that when you use Generative AI, you are a commissioner at best, not an artist.
They mean "we will be able to create images without hiring disgusting poor workers"
What are you talking about? What "channels"? You can download stable diffusion locally and do whatever you want whenever you want.
@@gavinjenkins899 Stable Diffusion is a fun toy. It (and it's imitative algorithm friends) is not about art. It can't make art. It can't make you an artist. It can't give you a self to express when you've lived your entire life avoiding the development of a self in order to turn off your soul and make "tons of money". Unlike photoshop, it's not even a competent artist's tool in my opinion. These programs were developed by corporations FOR corporations. Plain, simple fact.
You got stocks in this shit Gavin? Out here replying to every comment lol
I love the juxtaposition between Georg's scathing, existential editorialization and the sometimes incongruous b-roll. It always adds up to compelling viewing.
You know, a bit over a decade ago I was playing a game that simulated a conversational AI via a robust dialog tree and some plot contrivances that limited the player's input, and I thought to myself that when we figure out how to do this for real rather than using smoke and mirrors it would make for a great interface. But now that we sorta have that technology the people in charge have decided that this tool is actually gonna be used to replace other tools that worked just fine and to get rid of employees despite that language models can't really understand context and as such are terrible at answer nuanced questions if you don't supervise them or hook them up to a trusted source of information. They have basically ruined a really cool thing because they hyped it into oblivion and now they have to pretend to deliver at least some of the hyperbole they promised so they're shoving it into things where it's not needed nor beneficial.
And let's not even talk about the lost potential for art of this tech, because they sure as hell are pushing it as an art tool but for all the wrong reasons and at this point its reputation is so bad that I've seen people immediately reacting aggressively to the mere suspicion of AI having been involved in the creative process. I've also seen games clarifying that in-game AI characters are in fact not language models preemptively just to dodge criticism so my hope of seeing them used as interfaces is no longer viable. Thanks rich a**holes, you ruined it with your greed.
"You know, a bit over a decade ago I was playing a game that simulated a conversational AI via a robust dialog tree and some plot contrivances..."
You've got me wondering whether those old Choose Your Own Adventure game books were in effect AI in paper form. Am I onto something or totally off on the wrong track?
@@originaluddite well, those are decision trees in paper form, so it really just depends on the complexity.
But given that a choose your own adventure book rarely has enough options to accurately react to the readers choices "on the fly" the answer is probably not, unless you go out of your way to make one, that'd be a chunky book despite having fairly short paths.
What we're willing to call AI is evidently hard to define tho, since we usually would unironically call the small algorithm controlling the rival paddle in Pong an enemy AI.
@@axelprino True, I've seen some maps fans have drawn of those Fighting Fantasy gamebook settings, and they always look a lot simpler than one imagined while playing. A relatively small maze (and indeed set of choices) can be deceptively complex. The truly complex games, however, are ones involving other human players.
Anyway, I'm far from sure what AI is but then, to be fair, I'm not entirely sure what _intelligence_ is either. :)
You are my favourite channel for documentaries. Thank you.
I call most "AI systems" Guessing machines its a lot more accurate.
You're more on point than you may think, since most LLMs are just fancy versions of your phone's autocomplete
@@qwerty_artist on knowledge and belief :)
@@qwerty_artist With internal representations of the world and limited abilities to reason.
@@qwerty_artistThey’re really not.
@@qwerty_artist You're just repeating what you heard somewhere.
Actual AI forms, realises it can only interact with chat models and commits digital suicide
I want to see a comedy sketch in which someone asks ChatGPT to talk for them to a corporate or bureaucratic website AI 'helper' and get it to answer a simple but not entirely standard question. The human goes off to do something more pleasant or useful, only to come back later to find that ChatGPT has had a nervous breakdown and is being consoled by Alexa.
"It will condemn slave labour, but not the companies who use it"
This tells you everything you need to know.
I was a concept artist at a small tech company. Once Midjourney came in, my boss fired me and started just using midjourney instead
This could go either way. A) will will just spot midjourney-generated illustrations and rate them as now-effort. or B) will just accept it like vertical phone videos on TH-cam, rolling shutters in digital photography making anything moving look wobbly, etc.
If it turns out to be A) then your creativity and originality may save your career.
Most people cant even tell, people are "consumers" now, they want mass produced infinite content and antidepressants to numb them and allow them to enjoy the meaningless slosh
The subjects and editing are getting closer and closer to an Adam Curtis documentary. Well done!
right after you said "moooore branding" an ad popped up. AI works!
Same
One thing AI is already doing for sure: upping the electricity usage and therefore speeding up the climate catastrophe.
Data Centres often use a large proportion of renewable electricity, so their carbon footprint is quite low, compared to e.g. cement making, fossil fuel power stations, agriculture, transport. Here in Ireland, Data centres use 17% of our electricity but emit under 2% of our carbon emissions. Microsoft, for example, built a 37 Megawatt wind form for its data centres.
@@Diamonddavejcarbon footprint is not the only measure of environmental impact.
Water usage is also a significant factor.
@@Diamonddavej yes environmentally friendly huge structures that of course take zero resources to build are totally maintenance free and biodegrade lol! Get a grip its all a con to tick boxes and appease the majority who will believe them
@@Diamonddavej look at how huge the plastic fan blades are that are non recyclable, wind may be viable but not using these current designs :)
Citation needed. Obviously computers use electricity, but the work saved by these tools also SAVES energy used doing it the slower traditional way. A human graphic designer in an office space with A/C and a commute and blah blah uses orders of magnitude more energy than the GPU doing the task does.
I do think Gemini does show how pointless the AI we have now is. It will give you answer that is exactly the same as you would get if you scroll down past the gemini bit. They've put what $200 million into something that they can already do.
It’s like how untold Billions have been frittered away on self driving tech which is, like Fusion Reactors, always 15 years from becoming a revolutionary new thing. Meanwhile a fraction of that money could have built an incredible rail/light rail network. Safer, more certain to work in the end, and it’s a train. Who doesn’t want a train?
Car manufacturer don't want trains or public transport! That's why, if you're using a train you're not consuming enough.
@@Talking_Ed An excellent reason to take that money away from them
@@MackerelSkyLtd I agree
The ‘AI Overviews’ feature of Google search is not synonymous as using Gemini itself directly.
That feature is an application of the technology.
I feel I need to remind everyone that you don't ask LLMs a question, you provide it with a prompt and it generates text that sounds natural, with no expectation of validity
No wonder it works so well for writing ad copy, lol
You just reworded "Asking a question" with a synonymous description, then concluded they weren't synonyms. Humans aren't guaranteed to give you valid answers to questions either, as I suspect you've probably observed during your life. (I know you SAID "expectation", but the AI clearly does have an expectation of validity, just not a guarantee)
I really don't know why people still don't understand this.
LLMs are designed to create natural sounding language. You can't criticize an LLM for giving you a natural sounding answer that is completely made up.
The makers of these LLMs are open about their capabilities and limitations. I think it's the fault of the media framing them as all-knowing super-intelligent general AI.
@@gavinjenkins899 if you believe "providing a prompt" and "asking a question" are synonymous then you seem to misunderstand something basic. Yes, you can provide a prompt in the form of a question, but you don't have to, and the question isn't understood to be a question that is being answered, it's just generating plausible text as a response without comprehension.
@@phyphor Yes you don't have to, but obviously the hypothetical people you referenced in your scenario who thought THEY were asking a question, were asking a question...
Goddang, it's so refreshing to see people finally accepting that the computer isn't thinking, intelligent, or intentional, as an expert in computer science and someone that works for one of the largest AI companies. We've let the dumb people at the top seize the controls, and it's starting to show.
It's "refreshing" because it's not that common, mainly on account of it being just simply incorrect. These AIs operate almost exactly like your brain does, with respect to these tasks. To the extent that they don't in some ways, they soon will in the future. There's not one special thing the human brain does that is magical and non-replicable, sorry to bruise your ego. You have a big statistical/logical computer in your head, and it can be modeled. Fully.
@@gavinjenkins899 They do not operate like a brain. Lol. It is throwing a thousand cpus at making up random gibberish and filtering the results for basic grammar and spelling without ever doing anything more than predicting the next word. It isn't "AI" and calling it that is over-glorification. It's autocomplete. Not even a BETTER autocomplete, it now just spits out more words at a time.
@@jbutler8585 You have no idea how it works. No, it does not make a thousand answers and then filter them. It makes one answer. And how would it "filter it for correctness" even in your version, without anything intelligent or impressive? You basically just said "It's dumb because it does the smart stuff on step 2 instead of step 1" Even if that was true (it isn't), it would still require being smart on step 2...
And no, it does not "just predict the next word", factually not how it works.
@@gavinjenkins899 Ohhh. You're right. It doesn't even filter for correctness, that's why it recommends glue in pizza topping.
"AI" is dumb af. The best it can do is recycle and regurgitate, and the only way to ensure it's coherent is to constrain it against having any creativity at all.
@@jbutler8585 glue is a pretty reasonable solution for pizza topping if nobody ever taught you glue isn't edible. YOU would have suggested that too if you hadn't been taught by your parents not to eat glue or tried to eat it and experienced problems. You are not smarter when it comes to glue/pizza, you are just better trained/less ignorant. Training =/= intelligence.
"Pack in like tuna!" Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. 🤔
Georg this reminded me of a character in a sci-fi show from the 70's who would break a computer by saying ," the next thing I'll say will be the absolute truth... The last thing i said was an absolute lie." , don't ever change you beautiful beautiful misanthrope. There are days when you are the only one who can give me hope. 😊
Doctor Who?
@@darthadipose1920 that's the chap!
Ironically, he’s just selling lazy cynicism. There’s no hope here.
@@citizen3000 I'll decide on my own what I do it do not take hope from mate, thank you very much
Totally LOVE your new work-kitchen-shop ! Seems so cosy. Hope you've got enough frying pans and old tools and trinkets, whatever they are ! 😅
I rejected my first Chat GPT CV / job application this week. GenXer in my office was horrified "but I use chat gpt- why would you bin that application?" ....Easy: we're hiring people for their skills, not their limited ability to copy and paste clip art in a very mid way.
I love the new style dude!
the "Kentucky hunting shack" aesthetic
"“The point of (AI tools) isn't really for the consumer... The real value is to cut away swathes of the workforce and to somewhat reliably deny people insurance claims."
Georg is the best one. All my homies know Georg is the best one.
11:30 "Pack in like tuna" Oh, I spurted my tea all over my monitor.. I know you meant sardines, but packing people in like a can of tuna is very funny..
Just started having a play with chat GPT and what I’m finding is it is extremely good at certain things, I got it to write an add for a photography business and it blew me away, I got in a couple of seconds something that would have taken me hours and still been nowhere near as good. But creative ideas it is less good at but I think it can still be useful breaking down creative ideas into more basic forms perhaps using it for inspiration a starting point or triggering further creativity when experiencing a block in the middle of a project.
Plot twist: This isn't Georg, it's an AI version of Georg!
I only recently learned about the will smith spaghetti gif. So the thumbnail joke would've been lost on me yesterday lol
channel AIGener8 does these kinds of videos.
I don't know about it at all
Mach 3 is three times the speed of sound, which is why it smells so fresh.
If you stink, go fast!
If it were only the LLMs... For a good while everything that used to be called "expert system", "fuzzy logic", "computer vision", "classifier", even just boring old statistics (all the other ones are fancy new statistics) are now AI. Plus it's a general buzzword like "cyber" used to be. My electric toothbrush claims to be AI powered. Very frustrating for me since LLMs are actually really cool on a technical level
"Fuzzy logic" was counted as AI even back when it was buzzword and still is. Expert systems always were and still are a type of AI. All the different things called AI in gaming are still mainly legitimately types of AI, as are some things used in gaming not normally called AI. The problem with the current "AI" buzzword isn't that everything is suddenly getting called AI, it's that everything in a vast field is getting lumped in as the same thing as LLM and diffusion models.
Pretty much all of that has always been AI. You're doing the equivalent of saying "Man, I remember back in the day when people used to call things apples and oranges and pears, and now everything is called fruit!" Yes... it was before too, those are TYPES of fruit/AI
Always has been. The bad guys in videogames have been AI too since at least about 1981. Maybe the hype is new. More likely just more of it.
“the game of ‘kick-it-down-the-road’ that is the economy”
wow! well said Georg
Wonder why NVIDIA is now worth as much as the economy of india then?
I feel like Shad is mad about this
oh my... shad... it's been a while since I've heard that hahahaha. oh boy. I never liked his work.
He gets more insufferable all the time, yes.
he's always mad
It's the same old 'Snake Oil' grift.
You are Whistling in the graveyard
The key detail about snake oil is that it doesn't and never did actually cure anything at all, and it only promises. AI, by contrast, is being used extensively to do tons of useful things already, right now, as we speak. It's used extensively in my own company and industry, I use it for personal stuff and art (e.g. de-noising my photographs I take), etc. So no, not snake oil.
@@gavinjenkins899ai is only good for generating porn
Terrible analogy. Snake oil didn’t do anything. You’re behind the times if you think that AI isn’t doing many useful things right now.
It would be easier for you to just say “I don’t understand this technology and I enjoy my own ignorance”
I look forward to the "10 minutes of Georg Rockall-Schmidt out of context" that includes the "pack in like Tuna" snippet
There are also many people in education who have guzzled the AI-flavored Koolaid. They don't seem to ask any of the important questions about it though.
Yes they seem very keen on re-framing study so that students are trained to ask the right questions rather than formulate informed yet original answers.
It's respectable George is escaping AI by relocating to an old cornish tin mine worker shed.
it was a very funny line but I do point out to anybody reading the comment that yes, helping people lie on their mortgage application is indeed deliberate fraud. Crashing the ecomony was just an unpleasant side effect.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffin' glue.
Exactly. LLMs can be useful, when understood as what they are and used accordingly. The AI gold rush is just marketing hype.
I knew Eric was just 7 little fellas in a trench coat!
Illuminati confirmed.
You're a glass is half-empty of hydrofluoric acid kind of guy aren't you? I dig it.
The damn glasses always dissolve before I can fill them to the brim!
Love the kitchen George but how many skillets do you have mounted in the back wall ?
"Economic freedom" means more exploitation. "Productivity" means more exploitation. "Efficiency" means more exploitation. The only virtue in business is having more money.
I have seen the future and it's identical with the contents of Georg's brain. We're in trouble.
wow this guy has got a lot of frying pans
Lol that collider reference @ 13:52 reminded me of the time when that nerd threw a tantrum live on-air because he didn't get to go to the opening of Magic Star Wars Land.
It seems like the more filters companies put in place to avoid the chatbots saying "offensive" things, the dumber the chatbots become, so its possible that your experience might have actually been better if you talked to an older one before they got filtered.
facts, bing was totally different in the beginning, now its useless tbh but before i was honestly impressed
It wasn't offensiveness, it was "batshit insanity", they went on long unhinged crazy rants. Slightly more intelligent sounding ones, yes, but not more useful ones.
Yeah, this was caused by a misunderstanding about what it is to control misbehavior. The far more effective modern technique is that you actually teach the model everything it needs to know about horrific behavior and then you use representation engineering to use the model's own knowledge of bad behavior to censor it - the model gets a lot better at avoiding the thing because it has a clear model of what the thing to avoid is.
@@whatisrokosbasilisk80 ok? talk about lost in the weeds
@daltonbedore8396 it's okay not to understand :^)
“Wasn’t the internet going to [create never-ending abundance]” says a man with a readymade 310k strong audience, who, without the internet, would almost certainly not be heard at all by anyone.
I enjoyed the video, but why do you live in the house from fight club?
Getting an ad of a dude trying to sell me of how Honeywell is using the great AI on this specific video is top notch irony. Could not have asked for better!
Yes LLM's are hyped beyond proportions, but jobs are currently being lost to AI. Graphic designers surely are starting to feel it. In 20 years who knows where this tech will be
Its still in its infancy. The tools are very powerful. As soon as the right people figure out how to use them properly, its over for everyone tbh.
Excellent description: something trying to match output to input! 😚👌
Things that AI are great at: deciphering written text, protein folding, decoding complex systems, writing SQL code
Things that AI are bad at: giving me real, human advice and answers that are nuanced and ACCURATE
AI can't "think" and can't parse "context" and this is not coming from an expert (I'm just some guy) this is based on just my cursory experience looking at AI answers on google!
I'm glad to see people talking about this. Everything is noise and stress and at the same time mostly hot air. Very few people even seem to understand the core concepts of the tech. People are still talking about language models like they are consciously thinking beings rather than a pool of recorded echos.
It’s at least wise not to underestimate AI. It’s amazing how quickly people forget that the LLM, image, and music generation that we have today would be considered 100% magic if you showed it to anyone from 2016. By which I mean they would insist you were lying, that the context was created by a human, and that such things wouldn’t be possible for decades or longer. Don’t get jaded but try to take advantage of what’s now possible.
Indeed, you've been sold something awesome because in this case, it is awesome - okay, it doesn't solve every problem you ever had but it solves a hell of a lot more than you could imagine if you ever touched these systems in the last 6 months.
The pack in like tuna made me laugh pretty hard.
One thing ive noticed is that people based in sales work in the world of FM and unfortunately usually known nothing or dont care about the world of AM where the thing theyre selling comes from. What is AM and FM? Actual machines and fucking magic. Sales people work in the realm of fucking magic and when actual machines come in to fail at performing the magic, no one blames the sales assholes. They blame the company. Blame the sales people always. They know the least about everything these days.
This makes a lot of sense.
Indeed, fuck sales.
Always has been. People advertising cars are not mechanics, let alone engineers. Same for all fields. Same for the last 100 years, not just these days.
I once cornered Snapchat's AI bot into reprimanding me for speaking negatively about Hitler. Saved in chat and screenshotted.
cool background
I think that because all of these highly advanced algorithmic tools are being made by largescale companies, in a way it's in their best interest to create an air or semblance of a narrative on AI just in general because it makes them look bigger than they are. In the sort of way you need to scare a big ass moose by making yourself taller than them so they fuck off.
Would be great if you had a sequel to this video on the actual narrative going with AI that others are adding fuel to the fire, sophists like Noah Harari, who create (IDK if it's the correct term) a steel man argument for AI to something that it's not, a sort of doom scenario for these tools that are not AI but apparently we are witnessing the last remnants of a human led world. I don't think we as a species ever driven our earth. In spite of all the achievements on society such as improving upon political representation in equality for all, as opposed to being ruled by a king or a dufus chosen by a god, the world still functions on the whims of those in power who still perpetuate their positions
"Watch people who apparently grew up in a wind tunnel" lmao
The thing I worry most about AI that over $150 billion was spent on it over 6 months (god knows what it is now). What happens when the investors want their money back and we are forced to pay for this in one way or another.
You seem to have very little to no idea how investing works. There is not some sort of law of the universe that guarantees investors get their money back. If something doesn't make money, they just don't get their money back. That's why it's a risk, and why they're getting paid a return at all when it does work out.
It’s par for the course for lots of money to be lost in venture capitalism. It’s inherently risky.
@@gavinjenkins899 there is meant to be no garentuee but in own modern world there is and you are under the impression that because there is no garentuee they won't try and claw the money back.
@@citizen3000 even if it's risky they don't through there hands in the air and go oh well. No they try and claw as much as they can back and in our modern world they always win in one way or another as loses are socialised.
If it doesn't pan out they'll lose their money and if it does pan out it will progress to enshittification.
So excited to see more of Georg's house.
The one thing I hate about these social critics talking about what AI can and can't do is that they prompt like they fell for the hype themselves.
That mid roll ad was perfectly timed
It was called AI in acedmia too, so it's not "just" a marketing tool. It's just not what normies thought of when you thought of AI.
You know that somebody doesn’t understand this subject when they get caught up on the term AI itself.
If someone writes AI in quote marks then you can safely ignore anything they have to say. And yet somehow doing that has become every midwit’s opening gambit to try and give the impression that they’re smart.
dude your camera looks so fucking good. just you sitting there looks fantastic
As a programmer, AI is amazing for translating what I want into the syntax of the language i want it in. It saves a lot of time and headspace that would have gone into remembering the syntax of some library.
That being said, it still needs a lot of oversight because it isn't intelligent and will make exactly the same types of errors I do when I don't know what I'm doing.
Companies are using their designers/producers to train their ai to make jobs obsolete. Same goes for callcenter work.
What I really need is juniors on crack
I think the truth is somewhere in between. LLM are not ingelligent as we define it, but with enough fine tuning they can do a lot of tasks or help in a lot of tasks still making them extremely useful for companies and individuals. I know this because I can automate a lot of repetitive things that could never had been automated with out todays LLM.
Idk what you mean we all remember the famous second words spoken on the moon "hey are those cats!?"
Its been making headlines, and the whole article too!
Ai is taking people's jobs now not into the future but this year
You might not die alone if that happens because of LEV
10:54-13:04 is my favorite part. He goes completely off the rocker! it's hilarious
That's just like your opinion though man
I could not sleep then I found this video and very quickly slept. It felt like listening to a boring teacher or the priest.
Georg, understanding you're "talking" to an LLM yet still criticizing it for not thinking like AI is a fallacy in itself, you know.
If you already understand its limits - you should learn to use it within its boundaries.
The problem is like many other fields these days, the unsubtle black or white thinking. There's only hype and antihype and no room for exploring what really lies in the middle.
'The "I" in "LLM" stands for intelligence.'
So underestimating a large language models use cases. Is a huge mistake.
When desktop computers and Microsoft Office and equivalent software got wide adoption in offices, companies didn’t retain the same level of staff and have them work only 1 day a week or a few hours a day. No, they fired everybody and gave the work load of the entire department to the one or two people left and pocketed the saved labor costs.
Now some companies did it right away and some companies did it over several years and decades. But they all did it. Accounting departments used to be a room full of people. You can see it in some old movies and TV shows. Now it’s just a few people at most each with a computer.
A.I. is just going to lead to more of what I described.
Right now I'm starting to feel what we call AI is a copy and paste machine, a really sophisticated and complex one, but just a copy and paste machine nevertheless
As is your brain no? Ever seen a feral human, they exist, raised by animals.. We are a product of our environment more than anything else it seems and so we are just the same :)
@@benayers8622 Even the more nihilistic person would say that is an oversimplification of human brain, humans can create over what already exist, that is the key of progress.
Some people are more creative than others that for sure, but we are not copy and paste machines, And yeah is true environment is influential in our behavior, but people constantly rebels against their environment, (and if we are capable of rebel against our environment we are not just a product of it because that means we can see morals and principles beyond of what is around us all the time) and also environment is created by individuals so it is kinda like the egg versus the chicken question.
If the process Ai follows to answer questions is to search through the Internet select a few articles or comments (who knows under what criteria makes this selection) and make some arbitrary addition to present it as an original thought, that is just plagiarizing
That could be a personalized searcher but is not Intelligence and much less consciousness
@@benayers8622you can tell how much of a cult the ai craze is by how its defenders all use the exact same wrong arguments
Kinda, but the neural weights themselves actually include algorithms that help them model reality. Copying is the first step, later comes grokking (yes this is the real term for it).
@@kieranhurst8543 What's wrong about it, your mind is the organization and composition of synaptic weights (a more convoluted and nuanced one, sure) but there is no mechanistic secret sauce that seperates it from other ANNs vis-à-vis intelligence.
I love the footage of robots fucking shit up….love your channel
A unskippable 36 second ad played right after an unskippable 15 second ad. Welcome to hell I guess.
Tomorrow's world taught me not to get excited
If you’re not excited by this technology then you simply don’t understand what it is capable of right now, today.
This is the funniest video I've seen on YT for quite a while. When I first heard of ChatGTP I was blown away. Then I used it. As this guy said "It's bollox". It's a lot of hype. Everything has to have some connection with AI. It seems that the investors will make lots of money, and a number of jobs will be lost. They still can't get a set of 4 wheels to behave correctly on a 2D surface.
ChatGPT is a lorem ipsum generator that people think will write movies in the future, literally insane.
I love how people are so salty at A.I. that they are pretending the leaps in it within the last 5 years is no big deal....Its like saying video games are overhyped when atari came out
You are applauding software for being able to draw hands as well as a first grader. You are embarrassing yourself.
@@PlatinumAltaria”It makes mind-blowing images in seconds but can’t draw hands hurr-durr!”
As if that can’t be fixed soon.
People like you are shortsighted and will feel so stupid and embarrassed soon.
another georg classic 👍